He also underlines King's idiosyncratic way of emphasizing the first syllable of words, which injects jolts of energy into the smooth and even tones.
"When you're growing up in New York, all you see are tall buildings, and cement," said Evans, emphasizing the first syllable of cement.
"This is exhausting," she tells him, emphasizing the middle syllable of the last word, like a car that's just run out of gas.
For two syllable words, emphasize the first syllable (pos-co: I demand).
Say the last name more loudly than the first, and emphasize the first syllable of the first name and the last syllable of the last name.
"We are also praying for the people of Puerto Rico," he said, emphasizing the first two syllables of the word "Puerto".
But he stumbled on the pronunciation, forgetting to emphasize the first syllable.
It mainly stumbles on words with pronunciations that aren't particularly intuitive, perhaps due to their origin outside American English, such as "decorum," where it emphasizes the first syllable, and "Merlot," which it hilariously pronounces just as it looks.
In fact, he's often credited with coining the pejorative misnomer "Democrat Party" in lieu of the correct "Democratic Party" title in order to emphasize the "rat" syllable and to strip the party of its association with democratic politics.
These observations suggest that no single mechanism is responsible for changes in syllable frequency, and they emphasize the importance of analyzing each syllable type separately.
